In the mid-’90s, Stephan Jenkins slept on packing foam. He lacked a coffer account, a driver’s authorization and a abiding bandage to advancement his bedrock ‘n’ cycle aspirations. A analysis of abiding fatigue affection at 27 consistently zapped his energy.

Somehow, the acute bearings fueled the California native’s creativity, and eventually led to the self-titled admission anthology and above advance of his band, Third Eye Blind.

“That almanac was fabricated out of absolute desperation,” said Jenkins, now 52, on the buzz beforehand this week. “In that struggle, there is article admirable in that if your appetite is genuine, because for me, it absolutely fabricated me honest. What abroad did I accept to lose?”

What Jenkins didn’t apprehend was how abundant there was to gain.

Bolstered by radio hits like “Semi-Charmed Life” and “Jumper,” the 1997 almanac spent added than 100 weeks on the Billboard 200 blueprint and is now certified six-times platinum. And above the numbers, it has emerged as a defining anthology for that era’s hook-heavy another rock.

The band’s new “Summer Gods” tour, which stops at Pier Six Pavilion on Sunday, is in ample allotment a ceremony of the album’s 20th anniversary. For the aboriginal time, the quintet will accessible their about two-hour set by arena “Third Eye Blind” in full,